two people are killed and several injured by a suicide bomber who detonated his device at the entrance to the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital ankara. as france declares victory in its three week long campaign against islamists in mali chilling accounts of emerging of

the human cost of the intervention also. we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become. torture executive executions and a taste for covering it all up cia whistleblower john kiriakou hotels r t why he turned against the agency. and a rare failure for a russian u.s. satellite collaboration as a rocket carrying communications equipment ditches minutes after takeoff. live from our studios in moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now our top story this hour a suicide bomber has attacked the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital ankara killing two people and injuring at least two

others and the bomber believed to be a member of the left wing group detonated explosives as he was passing through an x. ray scanner at the entrance to the building our chief correspondent paula slayer brings us more details. three people have been killed today including the suicide bomber a security guard as well as a turkish citizen who was a member of the staff at the american embassy now according to eyewitnesses there was this massive bang also prunes of smoke that have been erupting outside of the american embassy or american embassy staff have been taken to safe rooms inside the embassy the last did happen in a part of an korea where there are several other embassies including that of germany as well as all fronts the explosion caused no damage inside the embassy itself but it did cause extensive damage to the outside wall there are a number of illegal groups ranging from kurdish separatists to lift to islamic militants who have launched attacks in recent years in turkey's perhaps it's worth

mentioning that prior to this explosion the son in law of the sama bin ladin was arrested in the turkish capital of ankara you also have in addition to this violence from syria that continuously spalls across the border and in the past artillery from syria has killed turkish civilians what that means is that you have a whole host of groups who could be implicated or who could have carried out this attack back in september there was that notorious mission in benghazi in libya where we had four and then we can stop members killed including the american ambassador and then just a few days ago you had britain's foreign office warning of a potential threat against the british embassy in tripoli so what we are witnessing is a chain of events targeting western embassies not least of all the united states that seems to be picking up momentum and it is a reflection of the growing anger against washington and other western countries at a particularly unstable time in the region. mark romanek professor of international

relations for bill can university in turkey says that anchors foreign policy in the region widely supported by washington could have provoked the attack. the government has been pursuing right wing nationalist groups that are hostile to it but it may have its security made up or taken its eye off the ball virus radical islamic groups who have been passing through turkey to enter syria i think it's really common for people to stumble instance to see people coming from north africa who are parents two hundred types and they then moved down to antioch on the border of syria across so there was danger as we saw in libya that people that the west has supported as opponents of the dictator there against can however decide that they can open fire on the western sponsors or at least one western suppliers as has happened in the american consulate in benghazi in september it is not impossible that such groups have targeted you or so obviously in ankara i suppose if for the

sake of argument the perpetrator could be linked to a state from say iran or syria itself then it is possible that it could be argued that it was only a state sponsors attack an invasion of turkish territory turkey is a nato member its ally shouldn't some sense come to say i suspect the more likely response is obviously going to be an intensified security sweep an investigation of how this happened who may have assisted the suicide bomber it's unlikely that it was a solo person. but of course it could contribute to the international tensions but it could of course turn out to be somebody who has a grievance against united states more from an angle that we're not looking at from some other subsection of the population or from some of these maybe twenty turkey marseilles. well meanwhile in syria internal conflict is taking on international dimension syria's key opposition group slams israel over an airstrike on syrian territory while the government payers for retaliation stay with us for more on that . and egyptians march across the country in protest

massive demonstrations call for the president to go spite and egremont to try and stop violence signed after a week of deadly clashes. the first man convicted over america's torture program is now on call waiting to start a thirty month prison sentence but decorated cia veteran john kiriakou played no part in the interrogations he was instead convicted over leaks after blowing washington's then secret program wide open speaking to our chief he told us just what it is he's being punished for. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking

a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had the ability to she would have given me ten years in this post nine eleven atmosphere that we find ourselves in we have been losing our civil liberties incrementally over the last decade to the point where we don't even realize how much of a police state the united states has become you know ten years ago the thought of the national security agency spying on america. and citizens intercepting their emails would have been anathema to americans and now it's just a part of normal business. the idea that that our government would be using drone aircraft to assassinate american citizens who have never seen the inside of

a courtroom who have never been charged with a crime and have not had due process which is their constitutional right would have been unthinkable and it's something now that happens every every so often every few weeks every few months and there is no public outrage i think this is a very dangerous development. john kiriakou was also against an abbey martin's breaking the scent here on our t.v. where he told of the different torture techniques used by the cia also more in his case the implications in an in-depth interview you can watch next hour. do you think that the the real people who oversaw codified torture john you alberto gonzales donald rumsfeld should they be the ones sitting in prison they should be the ones and there are others even if you just put aside the people who actually did the day to day torture what about the people who conceived of the policy and who implemented the policy where the attorneys that papered over it with with crazed legal analysis or the man who who destroyed evidence of the torture in the

tapes. thousands of people are marching in demonstrations of close egypt against the rule the president mohamed morsi the main rallies are taking place in tahrir square in cairo in the town of port saeed near the suez canal for more details let's now cross live to belle truth who joins us live from cairo bel what is the current state of the protests are they peaceful so far. but i'm standing about a very boisterous and defiant protest here in egypt's tahrir square where thousands have gathered to protest against the president comes and what protesters are calling is that they have been liberated with multiple protests demonstrations across the country including series course i even met

a shake down south so far here in cairo in the scenes have been relatively peaceful we do have backlash and it's interesting clashes between the protesters on the cornish and security forces which have been going on and off now for for several days in addition to reports of continued violence in the shaking in point saif it is just slightly different by today marks the year anniversary of the football results that enforce i.e. we saw several people die in this of course as we've been nice because the twenty one people were sentenced to death that full responsibility in this protest twenty one of them often point. saif the forsyte people are protesting against the government and also this unfair verdict what is being done what steps are being taken to end the deadly violence that's been going on for a week now. yesterday we had a key meeting broken finally which is easy egypt's the highest islamic all thirty one happened was in this meeting is called to stop the violence initiative

representatives from the egypt charge egypt's ultraconservative son of mr graef islamic representatives also you know mohammed el baradei he's an opposition leader a sidekick that maybe was head of the freedom and justice party for the muslim brotherhood they all mexico is an unprecedented meeting and signed this initiative condemning violence calling for peaceful protests and dialogue this was however met with some criticism from revolutionary forces who said it didn't specify state violence in addition we have issues here with dialogue in the future as the opposition coalition the national salvation front cox said they will have by the way the president under certain preconditions this includes the cabinet resigning a national salvation government taking over which is something the president himself has said will not happen actually in the meeting and in germany he said that he will not have the government to step down because the government stepped down to offer the parliamentary elections so we still have issues in egypt with suspected violence occurring later on in the day cairo based journalist bel true

live with us on the line from tahrir square thank you for that thousands there protesting. a rocket with communications equipment on board has strayed off course and plunged into the pacific ocean soon after takeoff the company responsible for the launches said it will look into why it happened here's our tos you go with details. the zenith rocket with the u.s. communications satellite on board blasted off from the odyssey floating platform but to went off course almost immediately and its engines were switched off and it gets into the pacific somewhere along the equator less than a minute after takeoff now on the equator the earth's rotation speed provides an additional booster rocket so they could carry more weight and when it comes to launching from floating platforms besides looking or some there are advantages and disadvantages like there's a minimal risk of rockets falling down on inhabited areas but waves could be

a problem in fact there's speculation that that could have been the case this time is a collaboration between russia in their gear and to us boring companies they've been working together since one thousand nine hundred five thirty four successful launches well this was supposed to be the first launch in two thousand and thirteen . sexual abuse harassment and loss of faith marred the german catholic later we investigate how much money and destroyed evidence helps a priest accused of serious crimes escape trial that's after a break. well . it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've gone to the future or covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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a live from the russian capital france's president francois hollande is planning a trip to mali to survey what's being held as successful military intervention against islamist now the french acknowledged however that the operation is entering a tricky phase which is likely to involve guerrilla tactics from extremist observers say the three week long fighting has spread more havoc across the country with civilians playing a bloody price for it we've got the story of one of the victims brought to us exclusively by local journalists gonzalo wants. grosser that out of one of us as betty ellis the war became a real nightmare for the people of a small city in the say google region it was one of the first places bombed by french warplanes before more jihadists arrived sweeping south towards the capital bamako the french intervention left a pile of debris and ashes that's just the visible traces of the war they left it civilians who are left with the scars that will last a lifetime one family paid

a deep price for this conflict against the islamist terrorists one of the family sons was killed by a jihadist soldier inside his own home. one brother was attacked by a group of militants the ridge children among them he started running and got back into our house but they followed him one of the children fired at him but missed and then another insurgent shot him inside the house my brother fell and was riddled with bullets we laid his body in the house we couldn't bury him because we were afraid to go outside. this is just one example of the terror that the conflict is putting mali and civilians through plaguing the weakest the most no one was surprised when india bali once jihadist troops arrived it was discovered that the majority of the military were heavily armed child soldiers. as france prepares to hand over the operation in mali to local troops which are increasingly being accused of atrocities and actually dot com we've got exclusive footage allegedly

showing evidence of war crimes by troops there we also have stories from people on the ground about how they are living through the western led battle against islamists. serious blows to the reputation of the german catholic church have resulted in more and more worshippers turning their backs on it child abuse and sexual harassment cases committed by priests that don't even get to court are seen as the main reason for dramatically shrinking congregations and you may find some of the details in peter oliver's report disturbing. the abuse of trust the destruction of faith the theft of innocence. in one nine hundred seventy nine when i was invited to his house he locked the doors and forced me to drink what i now know was alcohol. he asked me what i thought of his penis which was a wrecked then the priest made me perform oral sex on him.

the catholic church in germany is facing a crisis attendances dropped significantly over the past few years according to the central committee of german catholics one hundred eighty thousand parishioners stopped going to mass in twenty ten alone many citing church hierarchy unwillingness to do enough about claims of abuse like the ones made by wilfred the priest at the center of this particular scandal is now being moved to a different parish while this church where its alleged abuses took place remains closed to worshippers but just how difficult is it to bring a criminal prosecution in cases like this if those people go to court no it's very difficult to get to a sentence because the witnesses sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get. have

a trial usually failed christian vi for had been in charge of an extensive study into abuse in the german catholic church dating back as far as nineteen forty five his research claims that the church destroyed files on priests involved in abuse up to ten years also that twelve hundred victims were paid hush money not to reveal what happened to them he was dismissed after a dispute with a senior cleric over what information would be made public the scandal that this research is no not going to be finished. is causing problems to them as well now they're losing members because of the new headlines of the last few weeks there are those within the church that recognise the importance of transparency it lapsed catholics not to be brought back into the flock. a woman. thing and when we do not make things clear there will always be enough that something is being covered up

this will harm attempts to get people into church because it is about from vision for trust and all belief is based on trust. for will for trust has been lost he says he will never set foot to the church a good he's committed to getting compensation for himself and those others who claim they were abused by people who were supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all over r.c. germany. there's more news for you on line including on guard that is north korea much of the imposes moore's law urging its army to prepare for war head to our web site to find out if the korean peninsula is on the brink of military conflict. and find out all about a city that exists only for six days a year we've got all about the russian atlantis and our t.v. dot com. serious k.

opposition group has joined the chorus of outrage over what the regime says was an israeli bombing near damascus the national coalition slammed the airstrike on a military research center inside syria as an attack on the country's sovereignty and while the government has pledged to retaliate some mideast experts say the rebels condemnation of the israeli attack is should be seen with caution because the reported bombing of the site actually plays into their hands. well the main thing right now is to remember that this comes on the heels of systematic targeting of syrian by the syrian free army and the syrian opposition also i'd like to remind you that the syrian opposition has already thought of the radar station on the edges of the golan heights last year so this comes as a continuation of the effort to. royd the syrian army by the opposition and now by the masters themselves by the israelis so what we are

witnessing now is a reflection of the political impasse that the syrian opposition as suffering from being unable to achieve anything significant on the ground they have resorted to help from the zionists directly i don't think that is policy of making public comments of strikes be it sussan nations or strikes that they launch outside the bonders of international law. apologetic poorly prepared struggling to defend his views this is how critics and journalist scored barack obama's pick for the next defense secretary after his confirmation hearing in the senate chuck hagel did his best to prove to lawmakers that he's on the same page as them during an eight hour grilling are you going to teach you can listen in on the session. chuck hagel bent backwards to show how mainstream his views are the

senators kept accusing him of not being mainstream enough and they kept using the word mainstream over and over again during this hearing chuck hagel has walked back on a number of positions he had taken earlier he kept apologizing again and again and chuck hagel went to great lengths to show that he is in no way going to challenge washington's core foreign policy beliefs as one of the senators put it it was quite an exhausting hearing considering the senators were asking almost the same questions and roughly eighty percent of them had to do with chuck hagel previous statements on israel and iran especially there was so much mentioning of israel that at some point they were confirming him as secretary of defense for israel i couldn't count how many times he said all options are on the table with regards to iran again and again saying a strike on iran is an option an option that he had previously called irresponsible by the way here's what chuck hagel repeating throughout the hearing get the united

nations behind you get the international sanctions behind you keep military options on the table if the military option is the only option it's the only option one of the senators pointed out during the hearing that in a private conversation senator hagel recently told him that he thought sanctions they didn't work and previously chuck hagel voted against sanctions but today's chuck hagel as we found out during this hearing is for sanctions to those who believe mr hague go was in favor of direct negotiations with iran as he had previously claimed he was he offered a correction a very vague one he tried to blur his response as much as he could here's what he said i don't have a problem with engaging i think great powers engaging in gauge mint is clearly in our interest that's not negotiation engagement is not appeasement engagement is not sure under so no direct negotiations with iran and here's another example of how chuck hagel had to walk back on some of his prayed. statements at one time he said

and this has become a famous quote the political reality is that the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here i've always argued against some of the dumb things they do because i don't think it's in the interest of israel and of quote here's chuck hagel during this confirmation hearing he noted that i. that i should have used another term and i'm sorry and i regret it i mean do your use of intimidation. i should have used influence. i think would have been more appropriate i should not have said dumb or stupid. because i understand appreciate there are different views in these things it was like torture watching the hearing because it seemed as if the senators were not there to question chuck hagel but they were there to break him because they kept going back to his previous statements and pushing and pushing until he said what they wanted to hear and he did it so whoever thought chuck hagel was going to offer a new outlook on u.s.

foreign policy after this hearing would seriously doubt that. now we're always interested in what you think about the issues we're covering here at r t it's today at r t v dot com we're asking why hagel stance on iran has become more hawkish let's take a look at what you think so far the smallest percent the least amount of you believe that he's really changing his views after some classified data perhaps was came into light that it's a genuine change in position of a little bit more of you around twenty percent believe he's playing a game this is a ploy to counter criticism of being anti israeli like we heard from guy new there in washington a third of you believes it doesn't matter he won't have any influence on your own policy whoever gets the job will continue to push the white house's policies but most of you the largest percent believe that it actually proves hegel's own claim

that no one stands up to the jewish lobby that of course was the claim that he made before he was eyeing secretary of defense will drop us a line head on to our to dot com and let us know what you think in a few minutes we've got a report on the tough daily life in one of the coldest regions on earth so stay with us for that here on our city.

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